Copying city, state zip from abook puts tabs between city<tab>state<tab>zip

[David_C_Rankin]

Devs,

In 1.8 svn, (I think this was the same in 1.6), there are two lingering issues

that make it frustrating to use the address book addresses.

(1) The address book address listing in upside-down. Currently in egw you have

City State Zip
Address

when it would make much for sense (at least for the US) to have

Address
City State Zip

(2) When you copy/paste the address from the address book, you end up with
embedded tabs between the City State and Zip like this:

CityStateZip

it would be much more convenient to have spaces instead of tabs and it would

be correct to have a comma inserted after the city like:

City, State Zip

This would eliminate having to reformat the address every time it is copied

from egw to a word processor, etc. I think during the 1.0.0.6 timeframe we
talked about having some type of button or pop-up like ‘frmt addr’ or ‘copy
addr’ that would simply display the name and address for an entry in an easily
useable form like:

FirstName LastName
Address1
Address2
City, State Zip

and then something similar for business

FirstName LastName
BusinessName
Address1
Address2
City, State Zip

That way you could just click a button and then simply select and middle-mouse

paste a complete address without having to separately select ‘lastname,
firstname’ line, swap the first/last around, select the address line, city state
zip line, reformat, remove tabs, add commas, etc.

Is there any way to do this currently? Also, is there any way get the

address/city state zip lines reversed as discussed in (1) above? Somewhere in
the past I think I submitted a feature request for these, but don’t know what
ever became of it. Either way, that was a long time ago, but it is still worth
revisiting.

If something like this doesn't exist, can somebody give me an idea what the

quickest way to implement something like this may be. It has been a long time
since I looked at it and I know a lot has changed since the 1.0 days.

Thanks -- and 1.8 is working great.

–
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[Leithoff_Klaus]

Hi David,
why not using a rtf template showing the addresses as you would like to have them?
Step one: preparing the template (e.g: some rtf document) refered to Addresslabel.rtf
Step two: putting Addresslabel.rtf into the “Directory with documents to insert contacts” Directory.
Or configuring it as “Default document to insert contacts”.
Step 3: click on the Insert into document link, or check the action box and select
Insert into Addresslabel.rtf in Action Box at the end of the table.
That way, you have the address ready for copy and paste however you may want it, you can always
prepare the document for multiple addresses and have it available for more then one address to, by
checking multiple addresses and select “Insert into Addresslabel.rtf” in Action Box at the end of the table.

Best regards
Klaus

[Leithoff_Klaus]

txt files are supported as well:

Addressbook->Preferences:
If you specify a document (full vfs path) here, address book displays an extra document icon for each address. That icon allows to download the specified document with the contact data inserted. The document can contain placeholder like $$n_fn$$, to be replaced with the contact data (full list of placeholder names). At the moment the following document types are supported:*.rtf, *.txt

[Leithoff_Klaus]

Text documents do not support pagerepeat